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I think it is time to raise the bar on the age of the target audience for
these activities.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Tara Chklovski <
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> Hello!
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> this is in response to the NYT article on young scientists. We have
> been experimenting
> with doing open-ended engineering design projects with pre-schoolers and I
> think we have so little understanding of how these young minds are
> absorbing and assimilating. But one thing I can say for sure is that the
> research study in the NYT article is setting the bar deplorably low.
>
> Here is a blog post
> <
> http://iridescentlearning.blogspot.com/2012/07/little-engineers-and-parents-leap-pilot.html
> >about
> the projects we did with some pre-schoolers. We had the opportunity to
> follow these students and its amazing how much they retain from the
> sessions and how they are able to make connections.
>
> Tara
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